HONORED ON PANEL 18W, LINE 98 OF THE WALL
ALFRED GEORGE SAPP SR
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ALFRED G SAPP SR
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LEFT FOR ALFRED GEORGE SAPP SR
POSTED ON 10.21.2024
POSTED BY: edmund storlazzi
55 Years of Grateful Grieving
Al Sapp
I grieve you 55 yrs on.
One night, long ago, you were acting hdqtrs CO, and over-ruled a gung-ho staff officer Captain’s wanting to send me out on a night mission into the fraught Viet Nam night to investigate unusual activity in one of my Civil Affairs assigned villages.
I didn’t see you that night, but the Cpt said you nixed the mission as too dangerous to go out in a chopper at night around the time of TET.
I returned home in August. Some months later a soldier from the old unit contacted me when he got home. He told me that you had left the old unit XO position, and became CO of an infantry bn., and that while in a LO-CH flying above some action of your bn, you were shot-down and killed.
You probably gave me 55 yrs of extra life by nixing a possibly hot helicopter-mission I was ordered-to that night.
I regret that I could not save you from the helicopter mission that took your life.
You have been a presence in my life for more than 55 yrs. I feel I will forever owe you those years.
In my mind and heart, until my final “mission”.
Ed Storlazzi
I grieve you 55 yrs on.
One night, long ago, you were acting hdqtrs CO, and over-ruled a gung-ho staff officer Captain’s wanting to send me out on a night mission into the fraught Viet Nam night to investigate unusual activity in one of my Civil Affairs assigned villages.
I didn’t see you that night, but the Cpt said you nixed the mission as too dangerous to go out in a chopper at night around the time of TET.
I returned home in August. Some months later a soldier from the old unit contacted me when he got home. He told me that you had left the old unit XO position, and became CO of an infantry bn., and that while in a LO-CH flying above some action of your bn, you were shot-down and killed.
You probably gave me 55 yrs of extra life by nixing a possibly hot helicopter-mission I was ordered-to that night.
I regret that I could not save you from the helicopter mission that took your life.
You have been a presence in my life for more than 55 yrs. I feel I will forever owe you those years.
In my mind and heart, until my final “mission”.
Ed Storlazzi
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POSTED ON 12.17.2023
POSTED BY: john fabris
honoring you.....
Some may think you are forgotten
Though on earth you are no more
But in our memory you are with us
As you always were before….
Though on earth you are no more
But in our memory you are with us
As you always were before….
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POSTED ON 12.1.2021
POSTED BY: Lucy Micik
Thank You
Dear Col Alfred Sapp, Thank you for your service as an Infantry Unit Commander - Mechanized. Your 97th birthday is soon, happy birthday. Saying thank you isn't enough, but it is from the heart. It is Advent. Time moves quickly. Please watch over America, it stills needs your strength, courage, guidance and faithfulness, especially now. Rest in peace with the angels.
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POSTED ON 5.30.2016
POSTED BY: Grandson
RIP
Rest in peace grandpa, Till we finally meet
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POSTED ON 9.16.2015
POSTED BY: Curt Carter [email protected]
Remembering An American Hero
Dear Colonel Alfred George Sapp Sr, sir
As an American, I would like to thank you for your service and for your sacrifice made on behalf of our wonderful country. The youth of today could gain much by learning of heroes such as yourself, men and women whose courage and heart can never be questioned.
May God allow you to read this, and may He allow me to someday shake your hand when I get to Heaven to personally thank you. May he also allow my father to find you and shake your hand now to say thank you; for America, and for those who love you.
With respect, Sir
Curt Carter
As an American, I would like to thank you for your service and for your sacrifice made on behalf of our wonderful country. The youth of today could gain much by learning of heroes such as yourself, men and women whose courage and heart can never be questioned.
May God allow you to read this, and may He allow me to someday shake your hand when I get to Heaven to personally thank you. May he also allow my father to find you and shake your hand now to say thank you; for America, and for those who love you.
With respect, Sir
Curt Carter
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